The Luna Bound Propagator for Formal Analysis of Neural Networks
arXiv cs.LG / 3/26/2026
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Key Points
- The paper introduces Luna, a new C++ bound propagator aimed at formal neural network verification, addressing alpha-CROWN’s prior limitation to Python implementations.
- Luna supports multiple verification-relevant techniques—Interval Bound Propagation, CROWN, and alpha-CROWN—while operating over a general computational graph.
- The authors present Luna’s architecture and evaluate it using VNN-COMP 2025 benchmarks, focusing on bound tightness and computational efficiency.
- Results indicate Luna is competitive with the state-of-the-art alpha-CROWN implementation in both effectiveness and runtime performance, suggesting practical viability for production DNN verifiers.